Things that didn’t happen.

I think “so many people meet at work” because many people don’t have any meaningful IRL social connections outside of work.

There is one simple trick to determine if you are talking to a bot. Ask the person you are talking to not to respond to a comment.

“No offense, but I’m going to check to see if you are a bot. Please don’t reply to this comment.”

Current LLMs can’t not respond. They will often write that they are “really insulted that you would say that” and that the test “doesn’t prove anything”, but they can’t not respond.

I’m sure eventually the programmers will hard code in a simple defeat for this test soon enough, but for now it still works well.

Do you feel guilty when you are paid for your work?

No. You are an employee and you work and you are entitled to payment for your work.

Same goes for government assistance. You are a citizen and you are entitled to that assistance. It’s literally no different. Our democracy set that assistance aside for you. It’s yours, and until Congress changes the rules, you are entitled to it.

It was a long winding road to get here, but the answer is racism.

People might want to skiddley-poo but you actually have to meet someone IRL outside of work to do it.

We should all be getting banned from something right now.

Probably a little while. SCOTUS is not going to rush throwing an abortion wrench into the midterms right now. Though I can imagine this will probably get held pending SCOTUS review next year.

The Winter Olympics is being absolutely dominated by nations with… checks notes … cold winters and mountains.

Oh, you’re from Southeast Asia. Never mind then. Y’all gonna be vassals of China.

I could be talked into Italy pretty easily.

Make no mistake. We’re taking y’all with us.

How much is the offer? I would consider it.

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It doesn’t matter how many solid gold trophies you give them, the leopards will always demand more.

Making money… So that they can buy a tv so they can spend their last two hours of awake time alone watching tv.

You sure that’s a bet you want to make, honey?

It has nothing to do with money and everything to do with community.

People aren’t having kids because communities have been hollowed out.

I think “invest in IRL social institutions and socially encourage and incentivise people to be positively involved in their IRL communities” and the babies will come soon enough.

But, instead the constant “your miserable life is for work” message doesn’t really make people want to skiddley-poo.

The competency factor is something that online commentors greatly undervalue. The US, for all it’s faults in many places, is extremely competent. It’s an institutional world history anomaly. No one comes close.

And that’s the source of the “Greatness” of America that the billionaire-bro class just doesn’t understand and is actively poisoning. They think they are going to own “American Greatness”, but they don’t understand, can’t understand, that they are actively poisoning the institutions that made them rich. They are turning America into Russia (that is literally their expressed goal), but when they do there went be another America left to keep the world order in place.

To circle back to the Su-57, I don’t believe any of it’s advertised capabilities are real. Which is why everyone that was going to order them (India) has greatly pulled back their orders.

And I promise you, the F-35 is definitely not bullshit. But if the programs and institutions that support it aren’t diligently maintained, then in 20 years every plane will be worthless.